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The August 2016 edition of the GTU’s Insight email newsletter is out, featuring short stories about…
The Sylvia Ludins Art Exhibition at the GTU Library
A Remembering of DSPT’s Father Michael Morris
A Cover Feature about the GTU in In Trust Magazine
BJRT’s Special Issue honoring Arthur Holder and Judith Berling
Naomi Seidman’s New Book, The Marriage Plot
Read the August 2016 Insight here. Each month, Insight draws attention to top news from the GTU and its member schools, academic centers, and affiliates. Use the form to the right to have each monthly edition emailed directly...

From the Fall 2016 issue of Currents, view PDF
By Elizabeth S. Peña
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. —Gerhard Richter
The arts—literature, dance, music, and the visual arts—enhance religious experience and evoke transcendence. Artistic expression often provides common ground for scholars and practitioners representing a wide variety of faith traditions. In the classroom the arts offer entry into complex concepts and philosophies. These are just a few of the reasons why the...

The GTU is grateful to Lanier Graham, a professional curator, professor of museum studies and world religions, and president of the Institute for Aesthetic Development, for his generous gift of the sacred that makes up the GTU Collection of Sacred World Art. Comprised of more than 300 objects that relate in some way to the sacred, this collection is currently undergoing study and curation so it can be displayed and used as an educational resource for GTU faculty, students, and others.
Sacred art can be defined as artwork that uses religious imagery, symbols, or motifs to point to the divine...

An institution of higher learning unlike any other, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley brings together scholars of the world’s diverse religions and wisdom traditions to advance new knowledge, share inspiration, and collaborate on solutions.